With the chance of a play-off place in their own hands the Eagles players started Super Sunday in spectacular fashion against Owen Coyle's Burnley.

An innocuous ball over the top in the opening minutes had Burnley defender Clarke Carlisle chasing back to his own goal and looked set to usher it back to Brian Jensen. However Scott Sinclair was in quick pursuit and as the ball bounced on the edge of the box the on-loan Chelsea wideman got in front of Carlisle. 

With Jensen ready to commit himself to the cause, Carlisle cynically took out Sinclair and left the referee with the easy decision to point to the spot and send the central defender off. 

Ben Watson stepped up and with the Whitehorse faithful behind the goal he converted into the bottom left corner and sent ground into raptures. 

Some sections of the ground were still celebrating when Victor Moses struck a sweet volley into the bottom right when Sinclair again proved instrumental as his flicked ball from inside the box and found the Palace Academy graduate to double the lead.

As the game entered the half hour mark Palace found themselves stroking the ball around the pitch, making the extra man count and nearly took the lead when a Ben Watson free kick from 25 yards forced Jensen to push the ball around the bottom right of the post.

Neil Warnock replaced goalscorer Moses on the 33rd minute with Paul Ifill as the Eagles boss looks set on keeping Moses fit for the play-off game next Saturday.

Robbie Blake provided the visitors first real chance when his byline cross seemed to miss everybody as the half-time whistle drew closer.

Minutes later Tom Soares picked up the ball on the outside of the box and calmly played in Morrison, Jensen was quick of his line and forced the striker wide but Morrison stopped at the byline and found Soares at the front post who volleyed it into the keepers near post. 

After the restart the Eagles could have made it four when Morrison somehow turned the ball wide from five yards after Sinclair crossed the ball from the right.

On the hour mark Shaun Derry departed to a standing ovation from the fans as Welsh international Carl Fletcher took to the pitch.

With 17 minutes gone in the second half Scott Sinclair had the fans cheering again. After picking the ball up from Danny Butterfield some 40 yards from goal the skillfull youngster ran past four players before depositing the ball into the bottom left corner from just inside the box to make it 4-0.

In what is set to go down as another historic Sunday at Selhurst Morrison grabbed his 113th goal for the club to go level with Mark Bright in the all time top goalscorers chart for the club.

Watson was again the creator when his ball down the right  found the Ireland international and his right foot strike flew into the bottom left corner from 14 yards on the 65th minute.

With just over 20 minutes left on the clock Morrison departed the field to another standing ovation as Sean Scannell took to his place with his team five goals to the good. 

In the closing stages of the game Sinclair cut in from the right and got past two Burnley defenders before seeing his shot to the top right corner pushed over the bar from eight yards.

As the final whistle blew out around the ground the fans will be now look forward to the weekends semi-final against Bristol City.